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The shortlived era of the throwable "camera grenade" may already be over, as beercan-sized, hurlable robots with infrared nightsight video are now being delivered to US troops. Tellingly, elite special-operations units have also decided to try the new kit out. The Recon Scout in a company publicity shot. Credit: Recon Robotics …

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  1. Toastan Buttar
    Grenade

    Brian Blessed mode ON

    No-one tosses THIS droid !

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  2. M7S

    I saw the "Police" identifier on his armour

    looking at the sylvian idyll in the photo reminded me of a short bit from the "Porridge" film.

    Godber: "What can you see"

    Fletcher: "copse"

    Godber: "As in a wooded glade?"

    Fletcher: "Yes, a wooded glade full of bleeding cops"

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  3. Jelliphiish
    Coat

    tossable bots

    surely, that's 'tossbots'

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  4. Matthew Smith
    Grenade

    Enough of the killtech

    Surely, surely, now that the armed services are starting to doubt that the war can be won by arms alone, there must be parallel stories about $1.5 million being spent handing out wind-up radios, or the invention of $10 mobile phones, or water condensers, or wells?

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  5. Sly
    Joke

    oh tossers!

    end of line

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  6. M. Burns Silver badge
    Boffin

    The Recon Scout

    Does have a web page:

    http://www.recon-scout.com/products/index.cfm

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  7. Dave Bell
    Grenade

    Easy Target

    The Recon Scouts, that is. It on;y needs one grenade.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Headmaster

    Re: American context

    "or presumably one should say rounders, in this American context"

    Presumably one should say baseball, if one wishes to be understood by the Americans in this context...

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Droid=Midget?

    Is droid tossing even legal?

    It used to be called midget tossing didn't it.

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Rounders?

    "or presumably one should say rounders, in this American context"

    I assume you meant baseball? Rounders originated in England i believe.

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  11. Stevie

    Bah!

    And yet, no "hardened" Roomba stands ready to deliver high-def video of evildoers while giving their carpets a really good clean.

    Another win for the asleep-at-the-wheel "scientists".

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    Baseball and Rounders

    Even the origins of Baseball are up for grabs. Current thinking believes the game to have originated in Surrey, England in 1755

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  13. Charles Manning

    Through a door?

    If it could be tough enough to be thrown through a closed window or thin door then it could be fired from a grenade launcher which would be handy.

    I suspect though it is only good for throwing through open doors.

    Pissy little thing though. I wonder if it could actually get around well? Looks like it would be easily foiled by the smallest obstacle.

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  14. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Who cares about baseball?

    In most of the world its a kids game no adult plays.

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  15. Steve Roper
    Welcome

    May I be the first

    to welcome our hypertrophied, vein-covered, mutant, droid-throwing overlord!

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  16. phoenix
    Badgers

    The Rise of the Machines

    IT started then in the early part of 21st century...............

    Baseball British (English) not realated to rounders (British (England bit)) or cricket (also British (England bit)). Also for everyone who lives outside of Britain (particularly Americans and Germans) this is not England it is Britain just as Texas / Bayern is not America / Germany.

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